Copyleft Games

[Arc Riley]

A small group of us game engine developers (PySoy
project<http://www.pysoy.org/>)
have started the process to form a non-profit umbrella akin to the Software
Freedom Conservancy <http://conservancy.softwarefreedom.org/> with a focus
on copyleft (GPL) licensed games.  The incorporation will be based in New
Hampshire, where most of us reside, and we're looking for potential
volunteers and initial board members in this region.

Besides providing accounting and legal non-profit status for member
projects, potential functions may include promotion, a software-freedom
compatible alternative to the ESRB <http://www.esrb.org/>, fund-raising,
cooperative retail distribution, and well - this is all just brainstorming.

Functions will not include software development, that's the role of member
projects.  We're actually focusing our search on non-coders who feel
strongly about software freedom and are looking for ways to contribute to
the community beside software development.

Those of us already involved feel strongly that "commercial-quality"
copyleft games is a major dependency for making GNU/Linux viable for a
majority of desktop users, especially with young adults and families with
children.  This new group, both directly and through empowering it's member
projects, will help in resolving that dependency.

If you know someone, especially in New England, who would be interested
please forward this email to them.
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